#ghost spin

[reflectionsandechos]

Finished Chis Moriarty's Spin Trilogy today.

"Begin at the beginning, and go on till you come to the end: Then stop"

[crushingonbooks]

“A brilliant mix of space opera, cyberpunk, and just plain great writing, Moriarty’s work is some of the most impressive in science fiction today.”—SFRevu

[odditycollector]

I don't care about this dude or his problems or what colour his eyes are. He feels, unusually for this series, like a stock character - the romantic figure of an ex-navy turned pirate captain due to slowly revealed past betrayal/tragedy but who still lives to a code of honour etc etc I don't caaaare. Cohen should eat him already. (Also there is a coincidence involved that I don't trust. Anyway.)

I kinda feel Li's mode of planet hopping breaks some Rules established in this series, but then there have obviously been a lot of technological development and new physics theories since the last book, and this way I get to watch Li have more than one adventure. I think this is the last book, so.

Li is *really funny* ok. (She is a student of The Ironies.)

And not just when she is doing the equivalent of startling at a voice from a telephone and going "Hello, friend? What are you doing inside this box?" ...i guess this would be a more ridiculous scenario if she didn't have friends that could totally go inside a telephone.

[odditycollector]

Got a copy of Ghost Spin and I wanted a place to ramble about dumb shit as I go. Spoilers and nonsense follow.

I hope we finally get to see what game Nguyen's playing.

Router/Decomposer has graduated to capital letters now and also has blossomed into an even huger dork. I approve.

Cohen is an unreliable narrator even and especially to himself and he is more terrifying for it. You have *not* made it this far without murders that *counted* dude, I do not care what rules you've invented for yourself, don't even rationalize.

(Trying desperately not to parse the navigation-related exposition as "We've discovered an entry into the Farthest Ring of Paradox Space! This is going to end *so well* everyone :D") 

Li dealing with AIs is hilarious. Sometime I would like to dump her into a fairytale AU, although probably she's a knight rescuing a dragon from a princess.

"Every TAZ is a pirate utopia" sounds legit.

Li is not a very convincing heterosexual.

So Cohen gets kidnapped by a pirate and then kidnaps him right back, which sounds fair to me. But I'm not sure why this guy doesn't recognize Cohen yet? It's not like Cohen hasn't been hugely famous for *centuries*. :/ Oh well.

PS. Amused that author Chris Moriarty has decided to name her "nasty piece of work" apparent-villain Holmes.